So for the purpose of this RP, the world of Coco exists but the events of Coco never happened. (If you have to, just imagine that Hector, Imelda, and Ernesto formed a famous band together, Ernesto was never corrupted and became an excellent uncle to Coco, etc.) This is set in a large town (not city) that is not Santa Cecilia.
When YC was a baby, their parents took them to visit the grave of their great-grandmother in a rundown graveyard on Dia De Los Muertos. While there, they set YC down for a moment on a picnic blanket and turned to talk but turned around when they heard them crying. Only they were not crying, and the noise was coming from somewhere else in the graveyard. The parents followed it and found another baby, about YC's age, wrapped in a blanket in a basket on top of a mausoleum, and no sign of it's mother or father anywhere. Though they searched, panicking, for its parents throughout the festivities, they were never able to locate MC's parents, so they decided to take in MC and raise them as their own, making YC and MC twins.
Fifteen years pass and neither YC nor MC are aware of the fact that they're not at all related, even if MC looks different. MC has a tendency to act out, feeling different from the rest of the family, so between the two of them, YC is seen as a goody two shoes and MC is seen as a wild child. The night before Dia De Los Muertos begins, MC and YC's uncle, in a fit of anger over something MC has done, accidentally reveals that MC is adopted. Believing that he isn't wanted by his family, MC runs away and YC chases after them. By the time they find them, Dia De Los Muertos has begun, and it is too late: atop their old treehouse, MC wishes they would find their REAL family, no matter what. YC lunges after them as they disappear, and the second they touch, both are transported to the Land of The Dead, where they have 46 hours to get MC's "real" families blessing or they die.
When YC was a baby, their parents took them to visit the grave of their great-grandmother in a rundown graveyard on Dia De Los Muertos. While there, they set YC down for a moment on a picnic blanket and turned to talk but turned around when they heard them crying. Only they were not crying, and the noise was coming from somewhere else in the graveyard. The parents followed it and found another baby, about YC's age, wrapped in a blanket in a basket on top of a mausoleum, and no sign of it's mother or father anywhere. Though they searched, panicking, for its parents throughout the festivities, they were never able to locate MC's parents, so they decided to take in MC and raise them as their own, making YC and MC twins.
Fifteen years pass and neither YC nor MC are aware of the fact that they're not at all related, even if MC looks different. MC has a tendency to act out, feeling different from the rest of the family, so between the two of them, YC is seen as a goody two shoes and MC is seen as a wild child. The night before Dia De Los Muertos begins, MC and YC's uncle, in a fit of anger over something MC has done, accidentally reveals that MC is adopted. Believing that he isn't wanted by his family, MC runs away and YC chases after them. By the time they find them, Dia De Los Muertos has begun, and it is too late: atop their old treehouse, MC wishes they would find their REAL family, no matter what. YC lunges after them as they disappear, and the second they touch, both are transported to the Land of The Dead, where they have 46 hours to get MC's "real" families blessing or they die.
